The Garden in November

It seems as if just about everything is in flower at the moment, so be warned, this post includes rather a lot of photos.

Coral Charm herbaceous peony:

This year it had 18 flower buds, which is twice as many as last year. The last of the tree peony flowers are dropping their petals.

Chinese ground orchids:

not quite open when I took the photo this morning, but they have been, and there are buds to come. In the background you might be able to make out a tree peony flower with just a couple of petals left, and a rather eaten pansy.  The pansies are not doing too well this year.

Something (probably slugs) has had a good munch on this poor daylily, the first one to open this year:

One of several echiums:

At this point in my journey around the garden, the sun disappeared.

Wirilda - Acacia provincialis

Diggers speedwell - Veronica perfoliata:

Kangaroo paw:

This? It's a native, but its tag is missing:

Added later: Thanks again to Dee, who commented about this plant. It is not in fact a native, it is Tagetes lemmonii, or Mexican marigold! We bought it at the Melton Botanic Gardens Nursery along with a lot of actual native plants, then planted it in our native bed without checking where it was really from. Oops! Now we'll have to decide whether to leave it where it is or move it.

Rose:

Daisies:

Melianthus:

Wattlebirds visit this regularly.

Not quite in focus, but the lambs-ear is just starting to flower:

Another rose.

There's actually lots of different roses flowering at the moment.

Penstemon:

In the background you can see some lavender and the treasure flowers, so that saves me two more photos.

Pink tritonia:

Graffiti geraniums:

A little bit of sunshine has come back to illuminate the white iris:

Still in the shade in the background are red hot pokers and pigface.

Bees love this Buddleja globosa, orange ball bush:

Hoverflies and other insects all over these black pearl lilies, Ornithogalum arabicum:

I love the colour of these Osteospermum daisies:

Weigela:

A hoverfly on a ceanothus:

The bees love it too.

This one is a wildflower, trailing goodenia:

 It grows here naturally, and seems happy in the garden. And obviously hoverflies like it too.

And here's a hoverfly on a succulent flower:

A bee in a chive flower:

Round about now I am running out of enthusiasm for this! Congratulations if you made it this far.

Other flowers include: snowball bush, sweet peas, emu bush, kangaroo apple, grevilleas, citrus trees, nepeta, euphorbias, abutilons, salvias, borage, californian poppies, mesembryanthemums, aeoniums, and probably some I've missed or forgotten. So many flowers!